#164: Support user directories for configuration files --------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Reporter: hinder | Owner: mthomas Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: SimFactory | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: --------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
Comment (by hinder):
This breaks the Cactus convention of having everything stored under the Cactus tree. Many people have more than one tree, and perhaps would like more than one set of simfactory options. We should support this, as well as perhaps supporting what you suggest. I was thinking that we should actually support a PATH-type variable for looking for simfactory configurations. Then it could be set to: "standard SVN simfactory:site- specific:user-specific". We could also put ~/.simfactory on the path, for maximum flexibility.
Another advantage of separating out the customised or additional configuration files is that users can manage them in version control systems. This is problematic at the moment if you wanted to use, for example, SVN.